Posted on 05/18/2022 1:58:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions.
Right now, about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk — mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. Those are areas where people should already be considering wearing masks indoors — but Americans elsewhere should also take notice, officials said.
“Prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House briefing with reporters.
For an increasing number of areas, “we urge local leaders to encourage use of prevention strategies like masks in public indoor settings and increasing access to testing and treatment,” she said.
However, officials were cautious about making concrete predictions, saying how much worse the pandemic gets will depend on several factors, including to what degree previous infections will protect against new variants.
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I’m okay with ugly Democrat women wearing masks.
Please stop with this BS.
I've considered, thanks for the advice, but no thank you. Have a nice day!
Just in time for the 2022 elections another Fauci led Covid-19 crisis. Don’t worry about voting. I’m sure the Democrats cut a deal with the Chinese to already print up millions of absentee ballots.
“Like these mask mandates, I kept thinking, where did the 87% number come from? Not 88 or 86 but 87 precisely.”
I guess they took the number of tickets sold and divided it by the number of seats, and got .87 (the 87%). Just guessing, you understand.
Mmmkay CDC. Why don’t you go give Dr. Fraudci some beagles and fleas to play with in his lab and just leave us normal freedom loving Americans alone! This time put the fleas on Fauci and let the beagles watch!
fidiots!
I’m considering giving a “piece of my mind” to anyone who tells me to put on a mask.
So now we call cold and flu season “pandemic?”
Not only NO, HELL NO.
You can't control an airborne virus with a mask that has pores TOO LARGE to stop a virus. And NO, they don't mitigate ANY cases. NONE.
We are getting to that point. We’ll need LOTS of gallows for sure.
A third should be wearing masks?
So, this person is saying that they’re not only fat, but ugly as well?
“Well, half of the U.S. population is above-average looking, half below. A chunk of that below is worse than below average looking.”
...paper bag time.
Drop dead
Yup it’s all about the election.
Then approve the new vaccines like Novavax
that has pores TOO LARGE to stop a virus.
*******
And aren’t sealed around the perimeter/face contact.
It was an allowed quota due to Covid/social distancing. They would have sold 100% if allowed.
“Federal Health Officials” is all I need to read to know this is bogus.
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